Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!ihnp4!gargoyle!ddsw1!karl
From: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: QVT - a VT220 Emulator...
Summary: Pfffft!
Keywords: VT220, Kermit, VT100, File Transfer
Message-ID: <747@ddsw1.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 88 02:09:41 GMT
References: <20384@amdcad.AMD.COM> <641@omen.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL
Lines: 30

In article <641@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:
>In article <20384@amdcad.AMD.COM> indra@amdcad.AMD.COM (Indra K. Singhal) writes:
>:Before I speak of problems... I think QVT does an excellent job of
>:terminal emulation.  I no longer have the "noscroll after cursor is
>:on line 24" problem in vi that I have with vt100 emulation done by
>:Kermit 2.28, 2.29B, 2.29C and even 2.30. (BTW, if you have solutions
>:please let me know.)
>
>Indeed QVT has an excellent VT1xx emulation.  It does fairly well on
>VTTEST, almost as well as ZCOMM and very much better than the old and
>new Procomm.  It would do even better if it could switch the display
>in and out of 132 column mode with a definable video BIOS call.

Ha!

It blew sky-high on our Vaxen here trying to run EDT and the like.... as
well as some custom software that only likes real VT100s and VERY good
clones.

One simple-to-find limitation -- no double high/wide characters.

It also has problems with some of the screen bordering that the VAX does in
one of the packages, and drops the right-side border entirely.

All in all, back to SmartTerm for us....

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